13 Best nonfiction books like Killing It: An Education by Camas Davis

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Killing It: An Education

By: Camas Davis

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A wayward young woman abandons her magazine career to learn the old ways of butchery and discover w…

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1. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

By: Anthony Bourdain

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary tra… read more

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2. The Cider House Rules

By: John Irving

3.76

Format: 180 pages,

Raised from birth in the orphanage at St. Cloud's, Maine, Homer Wells has become the protege of Dr.… read more

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3. Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

By: Gabrielle Hamilton

4.00

Format: 274 pages,

Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-liv… read more

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4. Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

4.58

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of nort… read more

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5. Light a Penny Candle

By: Maeve Binchy

4.24

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the bois… read more

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6. Seveneves

By: Neal Stephenson

4.50

Format: None pages,

What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time b… read more

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7. Heartless (Parasol Protectorate, #4)

By: Gail Carriger

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Lady Alexia Maccon, soulless, is at it again, only this time the trouble is not her fault. When a m… read more

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8. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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9. You Only Call When You're in Trouble

By: Stephen McCauley

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Is it ever okay to stop caring for others and start living for yourself? After a lifetime of tak… read more

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  • audiobook
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10. Eat a Peach

By: David Chang

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In 2004, David Chang opened a noodle restaurant named Momofuku in Manhattan's East Village, not exp… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • food and drink
  • audiobook
"NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING, SO DO WHAT YOU WANT."

-David Chang, Eat a Peach

"Just know that this is as honest and true a story as I can offer."

-David Chang, Eat a Peach

"In other words, we may not be able to reject our fortune or fate, but we can reject how we approach it."

-David Chang, Eat a Peach

"I was going to either fail or thrive, and I was going to do it in full view of everyone I respected and resented."

-David Chang, Eat a Peach

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11. Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture

By: Gabe Brown

4.46

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

By: John McWhorter

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

People of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"To tar America as insufficiently aware of slavery is more about smugness and noble victimhood than forging something new and needed."

-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

"Antiracism should focus strongly on ending the war on drugs, and there is no need for legions of whites to be instructed in how privileged they are for this to happen."

-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

"[P]rofound social change can happen without the entire populace being junior scholars about racist injustice. Such change has been happening world-wide for several centuries."

-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

"They are unreachable for the simple reason that they are arguing from religion rather than reason, trying to foist their dogma into the public square out of a misguided sense that they are the world'…"

-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

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13. Taste: My Life Through Food

By: Stanley Tucci

4.21

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • audiobook
"Cooking for her is at once a creative outlet and a way of feeding the family well."

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

"And anyway one is never drinking alone. Someone else is always drinking somewhere."

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

"Losing a beloved family heirloom is a very real personal loss; they're things that cannot ever be replaced or re-created. But perhaps the most precious heirlooms are family recipes. Like a physical h…"

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

"It is the connection between customer and purveyor that makes our interactions stronger, to me eating well is not just about what tastes good but about the connections that are made through the food …"

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

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14. Thin Places

By: Kerri ní Dochartaigh

3.83

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking mix of memoir, nature writing and social history: this is Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s sto… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Naming things, in the language that should always have been offered to you, is a way to sculpt loss. A way to protect that which we still have."

-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places

"Heaven and earth, the Celtic saying goes, are only three feet apart, but in thin places that distance is even shorter. They are places that make us feel something larger than ourselves, as though we …"

-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places

"Grief is a country that has no definite borderlines and that recognises no single trajectory. It is a space that did not exist before your loss, and that will never disappear from your map, no matter…"

-Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places

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15. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. River East, River West

By: Aube Rey Lescure

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more

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  • audiobook
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

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17. The Fetishist

By: Katherine Min

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes

18. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

By: Edward Humes

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Breathe: A Life in Flow

By: Rickson Gracie

4.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

*An instant  New York Times  bestseller, USA Today  bestseller, and Wall Street Journal  bestseller… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Shattering disappointments require you to be radically honest with yourself, a process that can be painful but is absolutely necessary."

-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow

"If I'm fighting for money, I'll stop hitting you when you or the referee asks me to. If we are fighting for honor, I'll stop hitting you when I feel like it."

-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow

"Today, 98 percent of MMA fans have never stepped into the cage, or even onto the mat, much less felt their noses break or tendons pop. Their relationship with violence is virtual. MMA is just somethi…"

-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow

"Today, it is possible to get a Jiu Jitsu black belt without knowing self-defense or even getting into a real fight. This was impossible during the 1970s and 1980s. Because my father and uncle loudly …"

-Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow

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20. The Glow

By: Jessie Gaynor

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy … read more

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  • audiobook
"Everyone agreed that he was brilliant, but he wore his intelligence like his perfect jean jacket- I stole it from my mom, he'd confessed on their first date- an effortless afterthought."

-Jessie Gaynor, The Glow

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21. Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more

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  • audiobook
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22. Diva

By: Daisy Goodwin

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair … read more

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  • audiobook
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23. One Woman Show

By: Christine Coulson

3.92

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A sly and stylish novel—remarkably told through museum wall labels—about a twentieth-century woman … read more

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  • audiobook
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24. Notes from a Young Black Chef

By: Kwame Onwuachi

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A memoir from “the most important chef in America” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) and chef of Tatiana,… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • audiobook
"Like stolen labor, this stew became part of a Southern culture whose origins rest on the corrupt scaffolding of slavery."

-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef

"Nothing is a turnoff like a New York City housing authority kitchen. People want to hear about that once you're successful, not when you're living in it."

-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef

"Sometimes racism takes the form of ugly words and actions. Other times it remains unspoken, communicated by hostile looks and secret snickers. But the most corrosive form, and often the hardest to ad…"

-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef

Cover of Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain

25. Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

By: Anthony Bourdain

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential. For the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restau… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • audiobook
"You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese."

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

"That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund."

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

"There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub."

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

"I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction …"

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

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26. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

By: Andrew Leland

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"

-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

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27. Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, #2)

By: T.L. Huchu

3.92

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

“Alluring, shadowy Edinburgh with its hints of sophisticated academic magic will draw you in, but i… read more

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  • audiobook
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28. Rainbow Black

By: Maggie Thrash

3.96

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more

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29. Supper Club

By: Lara Williams

3.46

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who mee… read more

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  • food
  • audiobook
"I want to go home, I thought. I just want to go home. But I couldn’t attribute this feeling to any place I knew of."

-Lara Williams, Supper Club

"Once unpacked, I saw my family downstairs. Each step released something spidery inside me: the sick-making terror of need."

-Lara Williams, Supper Club

"I felt the weight of myself press into the carpet. I thought about how I was carrying only that weight, how I was responsible for no weight other than my own. All I had to carry through life was myse…"

-Lara Williams, Supper Club

"But we never really connected; standing side by side like soldiers, we were just marching through. It was sort of understood we wouldn’t stay in touch beyond the last summer of school. We were stand-…"

-Lara Williams, Supper Club

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30. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

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  • audiobook
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31. Killing It: An Education

By: Camas Davis

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A wayward young woman abandons her magazine career to learn the old ways of butchery and discover w… read more

Similar categories in Camas Davis's Killing It: An Education book and Camas Davis's Killing It: An Education

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • foodie
  • biography memoir
  • cooking
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • food and drink
  • food writing

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Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

You Only Call When You're in Trouble

Stephen McCauley

3.45

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Eat a Peach

David Chang

3.89

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Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture

Gabe Brown

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Eric Ripert

3.95

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Life, on the Line: A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat

Grant Achatz , Nick Kokonas

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'

Michael Cecchi-Azzolina

3.67

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3.89

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